Escape Artist David Blaine Did Tricks For A Bunch Of Wall Streeters At A Huge Party Last Night

Endurance artist and illusionist David Blaine at the DirectMarkets launch party on March 6th at Espace. Business Insider Investment bank Rodman & Renshaw just revealed its new subsidiary called DirectMarkets -- an automated electronic transaction platform to directly link public companies and investors seeking to transact primary offerings of securities, the firm said in a release.

That's the news. Now here's the fun part:

To commemorate the unveiling, DirectMarkets hosted a MASSIVE launch party at Hell's Kitchen venue Espace last night. (If you're a fan of "American Psycho," you'll remember Patrick Bateman went there.)

A source tells us the party, which was attended by the buyside, vendor and brokerage community, was jam-packed. We're told it was very "old school" in the sense that no expense was spared. There was plenty of top shelf liquor and catered food to go around.

But perhaps one of the highlights was the appearance of endurance artist and magician David Blaine.